After 40 plus days of bloggin my meditations I realized that perhaps the colors I kept seeing where not some inspirational color of the day, but rather blocks in my chakras. Chakra's are the system I choose to use in my analysis into the valley of my soul...I get them! Once I realized the colors were blocks, I gained a bit of freedom! After several weeks of meditating in the valley I have climbed a mountain. A mountain? Ok, so is that more unbelievable than the others parts of my meditative journey? Not to me.
I wasn't exactly sure what this "mountain" experience meant until I remembered in psychology and religion the mountain represents being at a spritual pinnacle. Not that I have really gained an answer as to what I'm supposed to do now...but I have accomplished one great feat, I climbed a mountain! Hm?
Psynologically Mountains represent the lofty, planes of consciousness. It is the realm of the ‘higher self’, the part of you that has higher, transcendent knowledge. Meditating and having this mountain top experience may show how you now feel that you have risen above the common routines of life and achieved something with spiritual meaning. Conversely, it may show your desire to do this. (this would be more true in my own case!) Mountains can also indicate that you are in touch with or thinking about the higher dimensions of reality. On a more mundane level, climbing a mountain may symbolise your sense of achievement and the arduous effort needed for a long-term undertaking. You are on the slippery slopes to success and have the self-determination to reach it.
The mystical meaning of climbing a mountain effortlessly is that all your ventures will be successful. To the Chinese a mountain can symbolise the unshakeable peace that comes from keeping the mind still during meditation.
So what does all this have to do with todays meditation? Good question. Today I prayed, and did the same Kriya as yesterday, 7 Steps to Health...did it help? I am assuming that it does. I have faith in the process. It's an ancient science steeped in mysticism. Does is help me to know that something is based in science and mysticism? Sure it does. It means that those who've gone before me have tried it enough to see the benefits. So I trust the process.
After prayer I did a meditation for Health. The meditation included a mantra, Har, which means the infinite one. As I chanted and focused as directed ( with my eyes closed) on the tip of my nose, I began to see air going into my nose and out of my mouth. How could this be possible when my eyes were closed? This is part where Taoism says language just can't explain the experience. It was amazing! To know that what I am is breath...in and out...that what makes me alive in this body, in human form...was amazing. But there is more to me than being human and that's what this whole meditation thing is about! There's a part of me that has a spirit. A spirit? Like something that transcends physical existence? So what does that look like?
Doesn't spirit mean breath? (am I starting to go in circles?) hm.... I think that I breathe and that makes me alive. Being alive is about my physical being. Spirit is that part of me that is non=physical. Do I have a choice in the matter? Some people say we don't have a choice to be born but we can choose to live or die. I made the choice to live my life based on the fact that I am a spiritual being having a human experience.
So now, I have wings to fly...where do I go...what do I do...who do I see?
Peace and grace!
